Key details

Course for existing Advance Steel users who want to make use of the application’s advanced features

Sessions include:

• Techniques for improved efficiency.
• Advanced drawing techniques.
• Advanced plates.
• Connection Elements.
• Customising drawings.
• Advanced lists.
• More structural elements.
• Exporting and importing.

Advance Steel Advanced training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Accredited Advance Steel training

Armada is an Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC), and our Advance Steel training courses are accredited by Autodesk.

Advance Steel Advanced courses are hosted by Wendy Sprakes, a highly experienced Autodesk Certified Instructor with extensive experience of using Advance Steel professionally.

Advance Steel training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• Comprehensive training notes, to refer to throughout the course and use as a refresher after.
• An e-certificate confirming successful completion of an accredited Advance Steel training course.

After course support

Following Advance Steel training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their Advance Steel trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

You should have good working knowledge of Advance Steel, i.e. have attended Advance Steel Essentials training or have equivalent knowledge.

Advance Steel version

Training can be based on any recent version of Advance Steel to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Advance Steel training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Advance Steel Advanced course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Advance Steel Advanced course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainer

Wendy Sprakes

Wendy Sprakes is an Autodesk Certified Instructor, a Microsoft Master Instructor (MMI) and a qualified teacher (QTS).

Wendy began her working life as a CAD operator, using Medusa, MicroStation and AutoCAD.

Working through the ranks of trainee draughtsman, graduating as a professional Mechanical Engineer, she worked in the Mechanical Handling industry on site and in the drawing office for ten years. She became a Project Engineer then moved into the CAE Industry, working as an engineer in the Fatigue Analysis software industry for clients such as Ford Motor Company and Jaguar Land Rover. She then went on to qualify as a teacher, and has been hosting AutoCAD courses since 2000. She also has specialist knowledge of Advance Steel.

Wendy has also been hosting Microsoft Office courses since 2000. Wendy trains all applications in the Office suite, including Word, Excel and other, more niche applications such as Visio and Project, from beginner to advanced and customised level. Wendy has been a staff member, delivering IT and Project Management modules for Chesterfield College, and a course leader for Microsoft Project at Sheffield Hallam University for five years.

Away from training, Wendy is an accomplished jazz musician. Her music enjoys regular airplay on both regional and national stations including BBC and JazzFM.

Course content

Techniques for improved efficiency

• Setting defaults to speed up drawings
• Creating custom views
• Shortcuts for getting around the model
• Viewing sections on the model

Advanced drawing techniques

• Working with drawing levels
• Isolating parts of the structure
• Using object filters
• The Project Explorer and Model Browser

Advanced plates

• Splitting and merging plates
• Creating more complex plates
• Using other objects to create plates
• Folded plates

Connection Elements

• Adjusting connection settings
• Custom connections
• Manual weld and drilling
• Gratings and contours

Customising drawings

• Excluding elements from drawings
• Choosing view visibility on drawings
• Customising drawing frame and title blocks
• Tailoring drawing numbering or naming
• Creating custom Drawing Processes

Advanced lists

• Custom (branded) Bills of Materials (BOMs)
• Custom Bolt schedules
• Creating templates for lists
• Extracting data for BOMs

More structural elements

• Portal frame buildings
• Spiral staircases
• Cage ladders

Exporting and importing

• File formats for importing
• Exporting 3D views
• Rendering high quality images of the model

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Advance Steel course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Advance Steel.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Advance Steel Advanced courses…

• Are presented by Autodesk Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Advance Steel.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Advance Steel installed. If you don’t have a current subscription to Advance Steel, you’re entitled to a 30-day trial that’s ideal for participating in training. We’ll send you a link to this. If you’ve already used your trial, we can lend you a license for the duration of your course.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Advance Steel doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t be able to assist with your Advance Steel installation, but we can provide details for Autodesk support who’ll be able to help you with this.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time